I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words ‘Special Relationship’ to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the...

Some people collect cars. I collect unemployment. Once my collection gets large enough, I’m going to start a country like the United States.

A number I’d love to know: the % of those now saying ‘we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran’ who will support one if Obama does it.

It takes a high level of training and commitment skills to represent the Red Cross outside of the United States.

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of...

The Role of the United States in World Affairs.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country…we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

If the United States wants to get involved in guerrilla warfare around the world, we ought to ask ourselves very carefully whether that makes sense and what our stakes are in it. We didn’t ask...

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can’t be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on...

My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of ‘if you are not hurting anyone, and you’re not fucking with someone else’s shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be...

All along, the United States has been concerned with the fact that the timetable to develop a test to protect the country on missile defense was bumping into the ABM Treaty. The bump was about...

Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like ‘a plantation,’ adding in a...

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things...

In a 10-year period, he became a millionaire, the governor of Texas, and the president of the United States,

This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became hinges on which American history swung in dramatically new directions. But...

If you convict and remove President Clinton on the basis of these allegations, no president of the United States will ever be safe from impeachment again, … And it will happen. And people will look...

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

We are strongly opposed to that the United States is allowing Lee Teng-hui to tour it.

Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

They want to reduce the external threat from the United States, but they also want to be sure that this issue will not be hijacked by the American right-wingers and racists in imposing a policy...

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if...

We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would be good for the environment if the entire economy abruptly quit fossil fuels,...

Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, ‘Duck.

The United States … reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

During an hour-long conversation mid-flight, he laid out his theory of the war. First, Jones said, the United States could not lose the war or be seen as losing the war.’If we’re not successful here,’...

During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and ‘experience’ to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

The United States is Israel’s most cherished friend and ally. We have a strong, ongoing, working relationship at all levels, and in no way would Israel do anything to impair this relationship.

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years...

Sustaining Australia’s high standing and strong alliance with the United States is a key priority,

The United States is doing its part,

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

You know there’s this tradition in the United States Navy that if a captain of a ship goes up on the shoals, almost regardless of whether it’s his fault or not, he loses command.

Well, let’s see. There’s—of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v....

There hasn’t been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED).

Commodity-related funds remain in demand because the fundamentals remain the same — we have strong economic growth in Japan, the United States and China that is going to drive up demand, while spare refining capacity...

In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: ‘We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments of the stories and putting them in an immersive environment. It is taking the theme park...

We are excited with the talent assembled for our U.S. women’s national team. The festival featured a deep pool of players and really highlighted the tremendous development of women’s hockey in the United States.

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really...

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

I explained to the United States officials here that the Iraqi opposition, Kurds included … have tens of thousands of armed people,

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.